At my previous job, one of the othee engineers had a nifty idea.
He clearly and boldly labelled one of the desk drawers in one of the lab benches "SOMEWHERE SAFE". Then, whenever we needed to put something somewhere safe, we put it there. Whenever we desperately needed something important, we remembered we'd put it somewhere safe.
Things still went missing, of course, but it did a really good job of stopping important things going missing.
Of course, you need to keep a limit on what's fairly important, or you just put *everything* "somewhere safe" and then can't find anything *in* it :)
A couple of times I emailed someone (CTS related, I think) about money owed, knowing there would be no response now, but would need to find the reference again, but none of the relevant words were distinctive enough to search for. I racked my brains for the best word to include I could find again by searching, and decided the obvious answer was "keyword" :)
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He clearly and boldly labelled one of the desk drawers in one of the lab benches "SOMEWHERE SAFE". Then, whenever we needed to put something somewhere safe, we put it there. Whenever we desperately needed something important, we remembered we'd put it somewhere safe.
Things still went missing, of course, but it did a really good job of stopping important things going missing.
Of course, you need to keep a limit on what's fairly important, or you just put *everything* "somewhere safe" and then can't find anything *in* it :)
A couple of times I emailed someone (CTS related, I think) about money owed, knowing there would be no response now, but would need to find the reference again, but none of the relevant words were distinctive enough to search for. I racked my brains for the best word to include I could find again by searching, and decided the obvious answer was "keyword" :)
Kx